Request for Standard Working Timetables, Special Train
Notices, Train Locator System
A large range of (mostly) PDF documents on rail operations
have been or are available on TfNSW, Railcorp, Sydney Trains, RailSafe and
related sites. These include various timetable documents such as Standard
Working Timetables, (SWTTs) and Special Train Notices (STNs). Mostly, these
allow access only to registered users, although the STN site was formerly Open
Access (but dark). In other jurisdictions (V/Line, ARTC, Network Rail [UK],
London Underground), these data have all become Open Access.
Such documents are of great value in transport logistical
analysis and of timetabling methods,which is increasingly a hot topic in the
Operational Research literature.
Will the TfNSW Open Data Policy allow access to these files
to registered users? According to a TfNSW rep. whom I consulted, they will be- but
I have been unable to find them.
On a related matter, can the Train Location System (TLS) app (or a web version) be
made available? This would allow better performance analysis by interested parties such as austta
Geoff Lambert
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